Hybrid type working machine

• US 8,239,081 B2
• Filed: 03/05/2010
• Issued: 08/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Inventors: Sugiyama, Yuta
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Mary
• Application Number:
  US12/718,505
• Publication Number:
  US 20100228416A1
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 701/22, 701/490, 320166-167, 323/271, 365226-229, 327/540
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/20 the prime-movers consisting of electric motors and internal combustion engines, e.g. HEVs
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2300/17 Construction vehicles, e.g. graders, excavators
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/123 Drives or control devices specially adapted therefor E02F9/125 and E02F9/128 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2075 of the hybrid type for vehicles in general B60W20/00
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2091 Control of energy storage means for electrical energy, e.g. battery or capacitors energy recovery arrangements in hydraulic or pneumatic drives E02F9/2217
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2095 Control of electric, electro-mechanical or mechanical equipment not otherwise provided for, e.g. ventilators, electro-driven fans control of hydraulic driven equipment E02F9/22
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2246 Control of prime movers, e.g. depending on the hydraulic load of work tools
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3842 combining voltage and current measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/389 Measuring internal impedance, internal conductance or related variables
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/005 Detection of state of health [SOH]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/14 for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle

Abstract

A charge accumulating circuit accumulates regeneration power. The charge accumulating circuit includes a DC bus line which is connected to a smoothing capacitor, a charge accumulating capacitor with an internal resistance, and a converter which connects the DC bus line and the charge accumulating capacitor to each other, and performs a charge/discharge operation. The control device changes the OFF state of the first switch to the ON state when the start key is turned on, measures a physical quantity involved with a discharge characteristic of the charge accumulating capacitor, and calculates at least one of the internal resistance and a capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of a measurement result.

Claims

1. A hybrid type working machine comprising:

a first electric motor which performs a power running operation driven by a supply of electric power and a regenerating operation generating electric power;

a first electric circuit which controls the power running operation and the regenerating operation of the first electric motor;

a charge accumulating circuit which supplies electric power to the first electric motor and accumulates electric power regenerated by the first electric motor;

a control device which controls the first electric circuit and the charge accumulating circuit; and

a start key which activates the control device,

wherein the charge accumulating circuit includes;

a DC bus line which is connected to the first electric circuit and in which a smoothing capacitor is connected between a ground line and a power line;

a charge accumulating capacitor with an internal resistance;

a converter which connects the DC bus line and the charge accumulating capacitor to each other, and performs a discharge operation of supplying electric energy from the charge accumulating capacitor to the DC bus line and a charge operation of supplying electric energy from the DC bus line to the charge accumulating capacitor; and

a first switch which performs switching between an ON state and an OFF state, the ON state allowing current to flow between the charge accumulating capacitor and the DC bus line, and the OFF state not allowing current to flow between the charge accumulating capacitor and the DC bus line, and

wherein the control device switches the first switch from the OFF state to the ON state due to the start key being turned on, measures a physical quantity involved with a discharge characteristic of the charge accumulating capacitor, and calculates at least one of the internal resistance and a capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of a measurement result.

2. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the control device obtains a first measurement value by measuring a voltage between terminals of the charge accumulating capacitor when the first switch is in the OFF state, obtains a second measurement value by measuring a discharge current of the charge accumulating capacitor when the first switch is in the ON state, and calculates the internal resistance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of the first measurement value and the second measurement value.

3. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 2,

wherein the control device obtains a third measurement value by measuring the discharge current of the charge accumulating capacitor at a time point elapsed by a first elapsed time from a time point when the first switch becomes the ON state, and calculates the capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of the first measurement value, the calculation value of the internal resistance, the third measurement value, and the first elapsed time.

4. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 2,

wherein the charge accumulating circuit includes a charging resistor which is connected in series to the charge accumulating capacitor, and

wherein the control device calculates the internal resistance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of a resistance value of the charging resistor.

5. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 4, further comprising;

a thermometer which measures a temperature of the charging resistor,

wherein the control device corrects the resistance value of the charging resistor on the basis of the temperature of the charging resistor upon calculating the internal resistance of the charge accumulating capacitor.

6. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a charging resistor which is connected in series to the charge accumulating capacitor; and

a second switch which is connected in parallel to the charging resistor and is configured to short-circuit the charging resistor,

wherein the control device turns on the second switch to short-circuit the charging resistor at a second timing after the first switch becomes the ON state, and calculates the internal resistance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of a voltage between terminals of the smoothing capacitor and the charge accumulating capacitor immediately before the second timing and a discharge current of the charge accumulating capacitor immediately before and after the second timing.

7. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 6,

wherein the control device calculates the capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of a calculation value of the internal resistance of the charge accumulating capacitor and a time constant of a decrease in the discharge current from the charge accumulating capacitor after turning on the second switch.

8. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the control device obtains a first measurement value by measuring a voltage between terminals of the charge accumulating capacitor when the first switch is in the OFF state, obtains a first integral value as an integral value of a discharge current of the charge accumulating capacitor until a third timing elapsed by a third elapsed time from a time point at which the first switch becomes the ON state, obtains a third measurement value by measuring a voltage between the terminals of the charge accumulating capacitor at the third timing, and calculates a capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of the first measurement value, the first integral value, and the third measurement value.

9. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 8,

wherein assuming that a capacitance of the smoothing capacitor is denoted by Cd, a rated value of the capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor is denoted by Cc, a rated value of the internal resistance is denoted by Rc, a discharge current at the third timing is denoted by i(T₃), and the first measurement value is denoted by V₀, the third timing is selected so that Rc×

i(T₃) is equal to or less than 1/10 of V₀×

(Cd/(Cc+Cd)).

10. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 8,

wherein the control device further obtains a fourth measurement value and a fifth measurement value by respectively measuring a voltage between terminals of the charge accumulating capacitor and a discharge current of the charge accumulating capacitor at a fourth timing before the third timing and after the first switch becomes the ON state, obtains a second integral value by calculating an integral value of a discharge current of the charge accumulating capacitor until the fourth timing from a time point at which the first switch becomes the ON state, and calculates the internal resistance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of the first measurement value, the fourth measurement value, the fifth measurement value, the second integral value, and the calculated capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor.

11. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the control device obtains a first measurement value by measuring a voltage between terminals of the charge accumulating capacitor when the first switch is in the OFF state, obtains a fourth measurement value and a fifth measurement value by respectively measuring a voltage between the terminals of the charge accumulating capacitor and a discharge current of the charge accumulating capacitor at a fourth timing after the first switch becomes the ON state, and calculates the internal resistance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of the first measurement value, the fourth measurement value, and the fifth measurement value.

12. The hybrid type working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the control device measures a discharge current and a voltage between terminals of the charge accumulating capacitor at a fifth timing, a sixth timing, and a seventh timing elapsed by a fifth elapsed time, a sixth elapsed time, and a seventh elapsed time from a time point at which the first switch is changed from the OFF state to the ON state, calculates integral values of the discharge current at two periods among a period from the fifth timing to the sixth timing, a period from the fifth timing to the seventh timing, and a period from the sixth timing to the seventh timing, and calculates the internal resistance and a capacitance of the charge accumulating capacitor on the basis of the calculated integral values, the measured discharge current, and the measured voltage between the terminals.